Thursday, March 26, 2009

I use ReSharper, an amazing extension to Visual Studio and one which seems to be on most developers default tool list. I have now started using Subversion and Tortoise for some personal projects which means I have to manage my own file exclusion lists, specifically ReSharper which quickly turns a 100KB project in to a 4MB one.

About Me

I am a lead developer with over 20 years experience of creating business class enterprise
software. Most recently I have been working in the global broking sector building front
office eCommerce platforms for the Swaps Derivatives markets. I focus on producing fast,
error free financial software by creating safe multi-threaded processes and building
independent components that communicate by message passing. I use proven software
development practices, including Test Driven Development, the SOLID principles and SOA.
My love of computing started when I was 8 years old when I wrote an adventure game on
my ZX81. I loved that I could program a computer and create a game. Creating software is
still my passion. My current interest is in functional programming, particularly Haskell, F#
and Scala, and how this applies to the Finance sector.